How They Compare: Roy Burns (Friday the 13th)

 

Camp Crystal Lake, a cursed land of tragedy, plagued by the killer, Jason Voorhees, but after 4 movies of terror they finally killed off the murderer in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. When it came time to make another movie, they decided to continue the legend by going with a new non Jason killer in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, and that killer was Roy Burns! While ultimately afterwards they decided to raise Jason from the dead as a revenant and continue with him onwards, I felt today we should have a look at this underappreciated madman.

Roy Burns was a Paramedic working in Crystal Lake, New Jersey. A quiet and awkward man, Roy secretly had a mentally handicapped son named Joey who lived at the Pinehurst Youth Development Center. One day, another resident of Pinehurst named Vic psychopathically murdered Joey with an Axe, and when Roy was called to collect a body and saw his own son lying brutalized there, something inside him snapped. Enraged at Pinehurst allowing a dangerous lunatic like Vic to be around his son, Roy set out to close that place down forever. Utilizing the legend of the infamous killer Jason Voorhees from a few years prior, Roy dawned a Hockey Mask, with Blue markings instead of Jason’s red, and went on a killing spree. Murdering not just nearly all the residents of Pinehurst, but the surrounding area as well, so it could easily be blamed on Jason and his own motives would be disguised. By the end of the night he had Murdered 17 people, and while he ended up being defeated and killed in the process, he ultimately achieved his goal, Pinehurst was closed forever.

Roy Burns, despite being a Jason Voorhees copycat killer, Ironically has better feats that Jason did at that point, like a Human Jason 2.0. He was strong enough to violently shatter an entire wooden door to pieces in just a single punch, stab repeatedly through metal walls, and flat out tank being crashed into head on by a speeding tractor that launched him several feet away. In terms of speed, Roy was able to decapitate a guy who was riding on a speeding motorcycle, hide in the closet faster than a girl could turn around totally unnoticed, and move so fast he casually ran around a large area, which two of his targets were running for their lives through, and killed a paramedic positioning his body in his car before they got there. Roy also has powerful Stealth abilities, he can maneuver through a home completely undetected and was unable to be detected by violet while they were in the same small cramped room. He also is very skilled at execution, his medical background seems to allow him to know perfectly how to instantly kill someone as most of his victims die before they can even cry out in pain. Lastly, Roy has very high superhuman endurance, being able to keep on running and fighting at full strength even after enduring multiple spike wounds across his stomach, being slashed in the shoulder by a chainsaw and stabbed through the leg.

Also even though he uses a Machete for a lot of his kills to fit the Jason disguise, he actually has a fair arsenal of tools, ranging from, Road Flares, Knives, Axes, Hedgeclippers, Cleavers and even belts. Weaknesses wise would be despite the willingness to use a lot of weapons, Roy has absolutely no long ranged weapons, and has not shown the ability to throw weapons like Jason has. Also Roy is ultimately a Mortal Man, and can be killed by badly damming injuries, which is ultimately why the studio went back to Jason.

Name: Roy Burns

Origin: Friday the 13th (A New Beginning)

Classification: Human Serial Killer

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman physical characteristics, high stealth, superhuman endurance, weapons mastery.

Weaknesses: Mentally Unstable, Distance Weapons, Can be put down by a damming enough injury.

Destructive Capacity: Small Building Level

Range: Melee

Speed: Subsonic

Durability: Small Building Level.

Stamina: High, powered through a long chase scene despite retaining multiple crippling injuries.

Intelligence: High, is a professionally trained Para-Medic, his scheme of framing Jason/Tommy was actively fooling the police.

 

So how would he do in other verses?

In DC Comics, Roy Burns would be comparable to other low tier serial killers of the verse like Victor Zsasz in terms of physical stats, but would ultimately be above him in terms of his endurance and lethality, especially given his willingness to kill instantly instead of torture. Against JLA members Roy would have a somewhat even fight against low tier members like Tasmanian Devil, but would have to be careful as any low tier member who packs guns or other long range weaponry could kill Roy before he gets a chance.

In Dead Space, Roy would be a boss enemy, having superior power and speed to the vast majority of Necromorphs and would be able to fight evenly with entities like The Hunter and despite the Hunters advantages in regeneration, Roy would more than likely be able to defeat it in a prolonged fight. If Roy uses his stealth correctly he could pose trouble to Issac Clarck himself, though if he doesn't kill him immediately, Issac is more than likely to win with his haxier abilities and long range weaponry.

In the I Know series of slasher movies, Roy would be an extremely deadly threat, while he isn't quite as skilled as The Fisherman, his stats are higher than even his and he can take a lot more punishment before going down. In a head to head fight between Roy and The Fisherman, Roy would likely just overpower him. The only one in the verse who would give Roy Trouble is the Specter Fisherman, who’s teleportation, regeneration and intangibility powers would likely be too much for Roy, though it wouldn’t be impossible for him to win that.

In Resident Evil, Roy would have stats comparable to the elite humans of the series like HUNK, as well as low to mid tier Tyrants and B.O.W. 's. He would easily be able to fight off large squads of zombies and should be able to go head to head against tough foes like Jack Krauser and The Licker. That said in terms of firepower Roy is completely outgunned and could be taken down by foes with guns or using some sort of virus based ability. He could possibly get around this with stealth if he's lucky, but against someone like Wesker or Nemesis it’d be impossible.

And Lastly in the Halloween series, Roy would be a very powerful foe able to take down multiple of Cokran’s robots at once in a head to head fight with his comparable stats yet superior intelligence and fighting ability. He could stop Conal if he utilizes his stealth abilities to do so, and even go head to head against Michael Myers himself in a fight. However, Michael would still almost certainly defeat him if he didn’t have some kinda ace up his sleeve, due to Michael’s impressive regeneration abilities, illusion powers and generally better showings across the board.